Sound sleepers, they found, have specific patterns of activity in the brain that block out distracting signals during their slumber.

他们发现，那些睡眠很好的人，似乎头脑中有着某种特殊的活动来阻隔那些将会影响他们睡眠的声音信号。

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Graybiel and graduate student Mark Howe, lead author of the paper, set out to see if they could link these rhythms with the changes in brain state that accompany learning.

布耶尔和大学本科生马克·豪尔，文章的主要作者，指出这些节奏可能和学习过程中脑状态的变化相关联。

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In a book coming out next year about the psychology of fiction, Professor Keith Oatley describes a piece of research where scientists got people to read while they were in a brain scanner.

在明年即将出版的关于小说心理学的书中，基思·奥特利教授介绍了一个试验：被试者需要在阅读的同时接受脑扫描。

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Warren says now that researchers have a map of the zebra finch genome, they can carry out experiments to identify which genes in the finch's brain are most critical to hearing and producing song - and by extension, which genes may play a role in human speech disorders, like those related to stuttering, autism,and Parkinson's disease.

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And it turns out that the dog— when they zapped part of its brain, its leg would kick up.

结果是那只狗,当研究者们电击某个大脑区域时,狗的四肢便会乱踢起来

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When they carried out a post-mortem on the patient who died, they found some of the brain tissue that had been dying off through Alzheimer's had started to rejuvenate.

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Degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's may turn out to be more difficult to model because they involve the failure of more than just brain cells, Markram says.

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They pointed out that the normal relationship in amygdala size between the two sides of the brain was not seen in the cocaine addicts.

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